Definitions

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  • adverb In an informing manner.

Etymologies

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informing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • "Yes," I replied informingly, "But I write the entries on hundred dollar bills."

    Writing in Death 2007

  • "Yes," I replied informingly, "But I write the entries on hundred dollar bills."

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • Ursule are less firmly and informingly delineated.

    Balzac 2003

  • But when they had finished their supper, and she had talked informingly for a time of Norway, its people and customs, she looked at the young man, who sat irresponsive and preoccupied, and considered him attentively.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • "Mr. Boulger has given a plain, straight-forward account of the several phases of Belgian Life, the government, the court, the manufacturing centers and enterprises, the literature and science, the army, education and religion, set forth informingly."

    Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin

  • The Doctor and Ursule are less firmly and informingly delineated.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • "I guess you don't know much about babies if you think they can eat cake like that," she answered informingly.

    While Caroline Was Growing Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

  • "But she's ever so much younger than he," cried Mrs. Sandworth after him, informingly.

    The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • The Doctor and Ursule are less firmly and informingly delineated.

    Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910

  • Their story is told, informingly enough, by some of those ingenuous marble things at the Metropolitan.

    A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910

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